Greetings! Cringe alert: Katie Zacharia gave Trump an embarrassing tongue bath in an op-ed she penned for the NY Post.  Zacharia, as you might recall, was fired by the Trump administration after a mere five disastrous days as POTUS’s bumbling press secretary.  That was less than two weeks ago. Yet she’s slithered out of her LA  home and back into the limelight again in what appears to be a shameless attempt to gain the good graces of the Oval Office. Sample gag-inducing sentence: “The president deserves a press corps that reports his results straight — instead of feeding the incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome that fake news keeps alive.” Worth noting: Zacharia's op-ed features four photographs of her at her Thousand Oaks, CA, home, making the article resemble an InStyle magazine profile...Say Cheese(cake): The Washington Examiner believes that Trump should toil for a few hours at a Cheesecake Factory as a daring PR stunt. This idea comes on the heels of Barack Obama’s tongue-in-cheek observation that Trump's glitzy redecorated White House now looks like an ostentatious Cheesecake Factory restaurant.  “As humorless as it actually was, it does present the president with a wonderful opportunity,” wrote columnist Christopher Tremoglie in all seriousness....Book news: Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East just hit retailers Sunday. Vanity Fair published an excerpt and attorneys for the president’s son-in-law are demanding that the magazine remove the excerpt from its website. Could get ugly...Who knew? The banana is America’s favorite fruit. Each American eats about 80 bananas a year, according to the NY Times. Sounds about right...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard